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- 2017-2020 (Creation)
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1 file, 30.3MB
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Biographical history
Harriett was a PhD candidate at University of York between 2017 and 2020. As part of her PhD research, she carried out face to face interviews with a number of Second World War veterans.
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Scope and content
Interview with Douglas Petty 'took place on July 24th 2017 in the presence of Nick Beilby (NB) at the interviewee's home' (transcript).
The interview transcript (HBE/1/11) provides the following background information about Douglas Petty: 'Douglas Petty was born in 1923. He volunteered for the RAF aged 20 as a Flight Engineer. He worked on Halifax and Lancaster bombers, serving with Canadian 429 (Bison) Squadron at RAF Leeming in 1944 and 1945. After the war, he worked in civil aviation for some years before taking a job as Mechanical Engineer with the Forestry Commission in North Yorkshire. Petty was awarded the Legion d’Honneur in 2017 in recognition of his participation in bombing raids which assisted the successful completion of the Normandy Landings.'
In the interview, Douglas discusses his decision to record his memories of the Second World War and how his father never talked about his own experiences of the First World War.
Parent folder: 2020/008
MD5 Checksum: b9b5c99847cf01eea1771fdd28e3e46c
Original Creation date: 24/07/2017
Last-modified date: 09/04/2020. Altered during digital preservation activities by Frances Bell.
Original last-modified date: 24/07/2017
File size: 30.399 MB
File format: Not determined by DROID. Thought to be MPEG-4 Audio File
File extension: m4a
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System of arrangement
The parent folder (2020-008) contains eighteen audio files (constituting ten interviews) and one Microsoft Word document.
Arrangement intervention is level 1 (no intervention by the archivist). The original material has been retained without any intervention by the archives staff. This does mean that the collection may include filenames containing spelling mistakes and duplicate files that were placed in the wrong folder(s) by the creator.
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Material is available subject to the usual terms and conditions of access to Archives and Local History collections.
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Images are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Language of material
- English
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Related units of description
See also York Normandy Veterans archive (NVA).